Looking for Leadership

I have always wondered why modern IT  organizations tolerate dysfunctional leaders? The only justification can be thats its prevalent everywhere and organizations are more happy to accept mediocrity. The problem with this approach is that it leads to growing employees frustration and lack of trust in the ambigious work enviornment.

Most IT organizations cripple or bust not due to lacking human resource or technology but primarily due to lack of leadership. Innovation in the digital age comes from sharing of  ideas and giving an opportunity to your workforce to be heard or share their ideas. Organizations with poor leaders usually have a homogenous team of people with similar way of thinking and liking. This can create cognitive gaps in strategy and its execution. Furthermore, such leaders prefer surrounding themselves with people who are biased and have little interest in seeing the organization grow.

In any successful organization leadership is the key element. The work enviornment is stress free and employees have a sense of direction in achieving business goals. Usually such businesses perform better in satisfying its customer base. In comparision if your organization has  poor leadership at various levels than you are bound to suffer from the following;

1. Low employee engagement and ownership of tasks.
2. Lack of communication within departments.
3. Poor moral forcing to accept culture of mediocrity.
4. Declining business performances and unhappy customers.
5. Thrusting own agendas on the employees.
6. Growing culture of negativity and biased decision making.

When poor leadership is in the hot seat of driving an organization it impacts all areas of business. The first sign is anergy in departments leading to low moral among the work force and forcing good employees either to pick up the slack or switch to a work enviornment where they can grow to achieve their goals. Once the top performers leave the organization those who stay behind get frustrated and eventually lose the energy to stay on top of things.

Written from Khanozai to Quetta on the N50.